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I recently met the team behind SARugby.com (nice domain acquisition there) after a conference. They’re a cool bunch who are keen to grow their site by engaging with bloggers and the SA social media scene in general. This in a recent email from David Wessels: SARugby.com have launched a competition for all South African bloggers [...]

For the first time on Friday night Cerebra hosted 27 Dinners in two major South African cities simultaneously (Jozi and Durban). I really hope this is a sign of things to come and that as we hear murmurings and rumours of 27 being taken abroad to London and San Francisco that soon we’ll be hosting [...]

If you are interested in the Enterprise 2.0 school of thought, and want to see some examples of where social media and software are being integrated inside corporations, take a look at Cases 2.0. The effort is being spearheaded by Andrew McAfee of the Harvard Business School. Also, if you have worthy examples of your [...]

Yikes. TV. I don’t like it. Radio is bad enough but I get seriously nervous when I have a TV interview. On 6 June I had my first interview with CNBC Africa around social media adoption in general in South Africa and how it relates to business, both internally and externally. It was a crazy [...]

Information Architects Japan presents Web Trend Map 2007 – “The 200 most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective”. An absolutely brilliant visualisation (someone has too much time on their hands). Thanks to Thomas Otter for the tip. The image is available in a number of sizes (including A3) [...]

The Business 2.0 blog reports that Google has changed their recently acquired Feedburner service from a subscriptions model to an advertising only model. In other words, if you like me pay for Feedburner’s Pro services, you will no longer have to as all the Pro features will be part of the standard (altogether free) package. [...]

I first met Jon Foster-Pedley while working together on a Management Development Programme (MDP) for the South African Breweries last year – he provided the content and I the social media platform for the initiative. I’ll never forget it – we both arrived early for a meeting with the logistical team. He is a striking [...]

Dennis Howlett, a fellow Social Media Collective member, got in touch with me the other day to chat about a new project he’s working on – check out FreeAgent Central. In short, FreeAgent Central is Freshbooks, but aimed at a UK market and (according to Dennis), better. I am financially challenged. It’s not that I [...]

What are you all squealing about? What is so terrible about MTN and Jupiter drawing from public domain user-generated content and simply producing slicker or better (debatable) versions thereof? Doesn’t the entire blogosphere work that way? Somebody comes up with something cool – an idea, notion, concept, buzzword – and then everyone piles in adding [...]

Sue Blaine has written a piece, published in today’s Business Day, about ‘The Changing Face of Internet Communicating‘ (is that right – communicating?? – sure it should read communication??). Dave was interviewed for the piece and Cerebra, our company, got a cool mention. Part of the article is a wiki experiment that will be live [...]